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In the summer of 1902, the Sackett and Wilhelms Lithography & Printing Company in Brooklyn, New York had a problem. They were trying to print an issue of the popular humor magazine Judge, but the humidity was preventing the inks from setting properly on the pages.
The moisture in the air was warping the paper and messing up the alignment. So the company hired a young engineer named Willis Carrier to solve the problem.
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Emmett FitzGerald spoke with Stan Cox, author of the book Losing Our Cool; Steven Johnson, author of How We Got To Now; Gail Brager, an architecture professor at the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design, associate director of the Center for the Built Environment and an expert on thermal comfort; Lisa Heschong, author of Thermal Delight in Architecture; and Manit Rastogi, an Indian architect and co-founder of the firm Morphogenesis, based in New Delhi. Coda on alarm design with Kurt Kohlstedt.
